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Craig R. Ferguson serves as NASA Earth Science hydrosphere program manager — Assets.science.nasa.gov

Craig R. Ferguson serves as NASA Earth Science hydrosphere program manager

Dr. Craig R. Ferguson serves as program manager for NASA’s Earth Science Division Research Element Hydrosphere program and holds several additional NASA roles; he joined NASA in March 2024. He is project scientist for the Integrated Modeling Virtual Institute Scientific Computing program and Earth Science Division co-lead for High-End

I watched the Challenger disaster from Mission Control — Zdnet.com

I watched the Challenger disaster from Mission Control

Steven Vaughan-Nichols says he was inside Mission Control at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center for the Challenger launch on Jan. 28, 1986, working in data communications to keep telemetry links between the shuttle and NASA's ground system operational. He recalls that telemetry indicators were all green

Wan Wu, NASA Langley researcher in atmospheric remote sensing — Nasa.gov

Wan Wu, NASA Langley researcher in atmospheric remote sensing

Dr. Wan Wu received his PhD of Physics from the University of Florida in 2007 and has been with NASA’s Langley Research Center (LaRC) since then, first as a contractor engineer/scientist and later as a civil servant in the Science Directorate, the NASA page says. The NASA biography

NASA’s Arcstone Completes Technology Demonstration, Begins Extended Operations — Nasa.gov

NASA’s Arcstone Completes Technology Demonstration, Begins Extended Operations

NASA’s Arcstone instrument successfully completed its technology demonstration and now begins extended operations. Arcstone launched June 23 on a SpaceX Transporter-14 from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on a six-month mission to measure light reflected by the Moon. The mission is led by NASA’s Langley Research Center

Scientists ready to drill on Thwaites Glacier as fierce winds delay work — Static01.nyt.com

Scientists ready to drill on Thwaites Glacier as fierce winds delay work

On Tuesday, a week after scientists from Britain and South Korea pitched tents on Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier, the 10-member team said they were ready to begin a multiday drilling operation into the half-mile-deep ice, the culmination of an eight-week voyage of the icebreaker Araon that, if successful, would allow

Networks keeping NASA’s Artemis II mission connected around the Moon — Nasa.gov

Networks keeping NASA’s Artemis II mission connected around the Moon

NASA’s Artemis II mission will carry four astronauts around the Moon, and the agency is relying on its Near Space Network and Deep Space Network to carry voice, images, video and mission data during launch, translunar cruise, lunar orbit and return, under oversight by the agency’s SCaN (Space

DeepMind unveils AlphaGenome to predict effects across thousands of genes — Static01.nyt.com

DeepMind unveils AlphaGenome to predict effects across thousands of genes

Google DeepMind researchers on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2026, published AlphaGenome in the journal Nature, saying the A.I. was trained on a vast set of molecular data to make predictions about thousands of genes, including whether mutations can shut genes off or turn them on at the wrong time. The

Webb confirms galaxy MoM-z14 280 million years after Big Bang — Assets.science.nasa.gov

Webb confirms galaxy MoM-z14 280 million years after Big Bang

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed a bright galaxy named MoM-z14 as it appeared about 280 million years after the big bang, measuring a cosmological redshift of 14.44 with Webb’s NIRSpec instrument. The result is described in a paper led by Rohan Naidu of MIT published

Scientists warn online isopod trade is driving poaching of rare species — Static01.nyt.com

Scientists warn online isopod trade is driving poaching of rare species

Scientists are warning that a robust, largely unregulated online trade in isopods — small crustaceans often kept as pets — is driving poaching of rare species, according to a New York Times report published Jan. 28, 2026. Collectors at a pet expo in White Plains, N.Y., paid hundreds of dollars for

NASA posts Widely Attended Gatherings determinations listing events and dates — Nasa.gov

NASA posts Widely Attended Gatherings determinations listing events and dates

NASA published Widely Attended Gatherings (WAGs) determinations that list specific events and dates, including Leaders for a Better Louisiana at Adams and Reese (1.28.26), California Manufacturers and Technology Association Reception (1.23.26), Goddard Memorial Dinner (3.13.26) and the ISS 25th Anniversary (1.19.26). The

Pillbug trade online fuels poaching of rare isopods, scientists warn — Static01.nyt.com

Pillbug trade online fuels poaching of rare isopods, scientists warn

Researchers warn that a robust, largely unregulated online trade in isopods — small terrestrial crustaceans also called pillbugs or roly-polies — is driving poaching and could threaten vulnerable species, the New York Times reported Jan. 28, 2026. At a recent pet expo in White Plains, N.Y., collectors were selling Cuban Spiky

How to view NASA’s Artemis II moon launch from Florida’s Space Coast — Static01.nyt.com

How to view NASA’s Artemis II moon launch from Florida’s Space Coast

NASA is preparing to send four astronauts on the Artemis II lunar flyby, the first crewed flight around the moon in more than 50 years, from Launch Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida; the mission could launch as early as Feb. 6, according to The New York

Webb data used to map dark matter across a 0.54 sq. degree field in Sextans — Assets.science.nasa.gov

Webb data used to map dark matter across a 0.54 sq. degree field in Sextans

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope observed a 0.54 square degree region in the constellation Sextans and, using those data, researchers produced a dark matter map overlaid on an image containing nearly 800,000 galaxies. The map shows dark matter in blue, with brighter blue indicating higher dark matter

NASA begins NURTURE airborne campaign to study severe winter storms — Nasa.gov

NASA begins NURTURE airborne campaign to study severe winter storms

NASA scientists have deployed an airborne campaign called the North American Upstream Feature-Resolving and Tropopause Uncertainty Reconnaissance Experiment (NURTURE) to collect atmospheric data on severe winter storms. The research team departed Jan. 24 from NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, aboard the center’s Gulfstream III aircraft headed

Winter storm leaves wide band of snow from U.S. Southwest to New England — Assets.science.nasa.gov

Winter storm leaves wide band of snow from U.S. Southwest to New England

A potent winter storm left a wide band of snow stretching from the U.S. Southwest to New England in late January 2026, the NASA Earth Observatory reported. On the afternoon of January 26, the VIIRS instrument on the Suomi NPP satellite observed new snow covering a large swath of

NASA opens Fornax cloud Science Console to beta users — Assets.science.nasa.gov

NASA opens Fornax cloud Science Console to beta users

NASA’s Fornax Initiative is now accepting beta users for its Science Console, a JupyterLab environment in the cloud that lets researchers compute next to NASA astrophysics archival data. Cloud datasets in the HEASARC, IRSA, and MAST archives can be used directly, including Euclid, SPHEREx, JWST, Fermi and others. Users

Gladys West, mathematician whose work helped enable GPS, dies at 95 — Static01.nyt.com

Gladys West, mathematician whose work helped enable GPS, dies at 95

Dr. Gladys West, a mathematician at the U.S. Naval Weapons Laboratory whose modeling of the Earth’s shape contributed to the development of the global positioning system, died on Jan. 17 in Fredericksburg, Va. She was 95 and lived with her daughter, Carolyn West Oglesby. Her work at the

Peter H. Duesberg, oncogene pioneer turned H.I.V. dissident, dies at 89 — Static01.nyt.com

Peter H. Duesberg, oncogene pioneer turned H.I.V. dissident, dies at 89

Peter H. Duesberg, a molecular biologist whose early work identified the first known cancer-causing gene and who later became a prominent denier of the link between H.I.V. and AIDS, died on Jan. 13 in Lafayette, Calif. He was 89. His death, at a care facility near his home

Candidate planet HD 137010 b may be Earth-sized but very cold — Assets.science.nasa.gov

Candidate planet HD 137010 b may be Earth-sized but very cold

An international team reports a candidate rocky planet, HD 137010 b, orbiting a Sun-like star about 146 light-years away. The object is slightly larger than Earth and appears to have an orbital period similar to Earth’s, though it could be much colder. The discovery comes from a single transit

Helicopter Radar Scans of Thwaites Glacier Aim to Inform Europa Studies — Static01.nyt.com

Helicopter Radar Scans of Thwaites Glacier Aim to Inform Europa Studies

Scientists aboard the icebreaker Araon flew a radar-equipped helicopter over Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier to image crevasses and the glacier’s internal structure, a campaign that researchers say can also help interpret future radar scans of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa. For more than six hours on Friday the chopper

NOAA to map seafloor near American Samoa to aid mineral prospecting — Static01.nyt.com

NOAA to map seafloor near American Samoa to aid mineral prospecting

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced a survey beginning next month to map seafloor mineral deposits near American Samoa, a move the agency frames as shifting from scientific exploration toward supporting private companies prospecting the Pacific. Deep-sea mining targets potato-sized nodules that contain manganese, cobalt, nickel and copper used

Edwin Martinez, Acting Director of Procurement at NASA's Kennedy Space Center — Nasa.gov

Edwin Martinez, Acting Director of Procurement at NASA's Kennedy Space Center

Edwin Martinez is the Acting Director for the Office of Procurement at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. He is responsible for managing, supervising, administering, leading, advising on, or performing work involving all aspects of the Procurement Office. He manages a portfolio of contracts with a potential contractual value

NASA prepares wet dress rehearsal to fuel Artemis II at Kennedy Space Center — Images-assets.nasa.gov

NASA prepares wet dress rehearsal to fuel Artemis II at Kennedy Space Center

Teams at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida are preparing the SLS rocket, Orion spacecraft, and ground infrastructure for a wet dress rehearsal ahead of the Artemis II test flight, with a simulated launch possible as early as Saturday, Jan. 31. The wet dress rehearsal is a prelaunch test

Knobby-headed raptor fossil from Mexico suggests head‑butting behavior — Static01.nyt.com

Knobby-headed raptor fossil from Mexico suggests head‑butting behavior

A newly described cassowary-size raptor from northeastern Mexico, named Xenovenator espinosai, possessed a knobby bump on its braincase that researchers say may have been used for head‑butting, the team reported in the journal Diversity. The fossilized braincase was discovered eroding out of the Cerro del Pueblo formation in 2000

Curiosity right Navcam images from Sol 4789 (Jan 26, 2026) — Assets.science.nasa.gov

Curiosity right Navcam images from Sol 4789 (Jan 26, 2026)

NASA's Curiosity rover captured right navigation camera cylindrical-projection images on January 26, 2026, Sol 4789 of the Mars Science Laboratory mission at drive 574, site number 120. The local mean solar time for the image exposures was from 1 PM to 12 PM. Each Navcam image has a